15-letter words containing f, i, n, d, s, t
- ft-se 100 index — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the midst of — amid, among
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-definition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
- self-infatuated — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-interested — If you describe someone as self-interested, you disapprove of them because they always want to do what is best for themselves rather than for other people.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- shroud of turin — a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, since the late 1500s that bears a faint life-size human image venerated by some as the imprint of the dead body of Jesus.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
- stand in awe of — to respect and fear
- stannic sulfide — a yellowish or brownish, water-insoluble powder, SnS 2 , usually used suspended in lacquer or varnish for gilding and bronzing metals, wood, paper, etc.; mosaic gold.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- stiffneckedness — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
- the first-named — something that is specified or named first
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- unsatisfiedness — the state of being unsatisfied
- west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow